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15 days and 6 Indigenous people have died when coming in contact with police across Canada (www.aptnnews.ca)
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Amber Joseph says when she arrived on the scene just after her brother Steven Dedam was shot by the RCMP, she was shocked.

“When I came in they didn’t have compression on him,” she told APTN News. “He was shot three times. The first thing they did was handcuff him and say he was ‘under arrest.’

“He was shot in the chest.”

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not one of your links is about all six deaths. In fact every one of them is about one death alone, without mentionaing any others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not one of your links is about all six deaths. In fact every one of them is about one death alone, without mentionaing any others.

Do I need to source every single Indigenous death reported by every other outlet for you to get the point?

This is a well known issue, and is going to be debated today in the House.

http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240916/-1/42173?Language=English&Stream=Video

15:44 if you want to watch for yourself.

As per the rest of your lying.

Dedam is the third Indigenous person shot and killed by a police officer in New Brunswick in four years.

The deaths of Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi, in June 2020, during wellness checks led to protests and calls for an inquiry into systemic racism in the justice system. The provincial government did not call that inquiry. The call for an inquiry arose again this week after Dedam's death.

The death of Steve “Iggy” Dedam is the result of systemic racism, Chief Ross Perley of the Tobique First Nation, which is part of the Wolastoqey Nation, said in an interview Wednesday. Perley noted that two Indigenous people were killed by New Brunswick police in 2020 — 48-year-old Rodney Levi and 26-year-old Chantel Moore.

You should read the links before you make statements about the content of them, and you should stop letting perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I don't see any evidence of lying from OP, rather it seems like OP only checked https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-shooting-elsipogtog-family-statement-1.7321343 instead of going through every page.

And OP is technically correct that there are three more names not mentioned by your sources, but that's besides the point. You would no doubt find them if you looked - but I didn't hear about these names back on TV or the radio when they were first reported (or even see it in print when I got the newspaper for free on the TTC).

So I would definitely that an awareness issue still exists in the public mindset, though at least it's good to here that the House is debating it....